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style='font-size:10.0pt'>1. Project name : OEPC (One Encyclopedia Per Child)<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>2. One-line description : OEPC tools, including ranking (and hopefully export) utilities<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>3. Git tree (web) : http://dev.laptop.org/git.do?p=projects/soc-oepc<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>4. Git tree (git) : git://dev.laptop.org/projects/soc-oepc<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>5. Status update<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I spent the early part of the week making connections with various people involved in Wikipedia and writing an e-mail to the Google Legal department on where we would stand if we used PageRank as our main ranking algorithm, patent-wise. Afterwards, I ported my proof-of-concept code for PageRank as a ranking algorithm, written in C#, to Mono (from the .NET Framework). I’ve now uploaded a git tree including both my PageRank-PoC (Proof of Concept) and the open-source library QuickGraph I’ve used for graph work; the library includes the PageRank implementation. This code is largely untested under Linux, but should be functional – running against the .NET Framework 2.0, it produced the results Ivan posted in the first SoC update.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>6. Next week's plans<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I’ll be working on rewriting the ranking implementation in a more widely used language – probably Python. If so, this involves learning Python, so the first part of my week will be spent on that until I feel I have the basics down. Afterwards, I will re-implement the PageRank proof of concept in Python, as this should be a good starting point to build the final version on.</span></font><font
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